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may possibly find the pot of gold. But you shall have no higher reward. On 

 this theory you and the horse doctor — the veterinary surgeon, and the veteran 

 surgeon of human bodies, may as well go into partnership and hang out your 

 sign together. 



Or, second, you can resist the partnership for which I am pleading on quite 

 another ground. Instead of being a monist, and holding to only one substance 

 and that substance matter, you may be a dualist of such extreme pattern that you 

 will say "there are two things, mind and matter, and they are so far apart that 

 the one has no connection at all with the other." You may say, " I will doctor 

 the body and you, preacher, may doctor the soul. Our fields have nothing in 

 common. Calomel and catechism have no relations. There is no reason wliy 

 either profession should consider the other. ' 



And yet, whatever theories of the entire dissimilarity and non-connection of 

 these two professions you may hold at the beginning of your calling, I believe 

 you will modify them as you go on. You will gradually discover that calomel 

 and catechism have points of contact. Perhaps you remember of a broken bodied 

 and broken-hearted man who went to an eminent French physician to be cured 

 of something, he knew not what. He seemed hopelessly low spirited. The 

 doctor, after various experiments, concluded that his patient needed mental not 

 physical stimulus, and advised him to go and hear a distinguished actor who at 

 that time was convulsing Paris with his comic performances. "Alas!" replied 

 the gloomy sick man, " I am that actor." And then the doctor was nonplused. 

 But he was wise in his prescription. He recognized the subtle connection be- 

 tween brain and thought; between heart and hope. The minister of large ex- 

 perience knows very well that often he comes to the point where he must say to 

 his patient, " Go to the doctor; there is no chance of your getting a good hope of 

 heaven till your liver is cleaned out." A hopeless kind of battle the religious 

 leader is fighting when he puts comforting doctrines against confirmed dyspep- 

 sia. Dr. Alexander used to say he always had a good hope of heaven except 

 when the east wind blew. Many another would be a serene Christian if only a 

 villainous digestive system would let him. On the other hand, some of these experi- 

 enced physicians have often reached the French physician's point, where they 

 were ready to surrender physics to philosophy, where, across the shadowy bor- 

 derland between the physical and the spiritual, strange influences reached from 

 the latter to the former, neutralizing the effect of medicine, suspending natural 

 law, and introducing into all professional calculations abscure and confused and 

 confounding conditions. 



So I believe the last words of science on this subject are these two : 



Fjrst — The proper duality of human nature, a body that is not the mind — a 

 mind that is not mere bodily efiloresence. 



Second — A closeness of connection and sympathetic action between the two 

 of the most intimate kind ; so intimate as to palliate the error of those who under 

 a sense of their identity forget their difference. 



I venture to propose therefore to you, young gentlemen, as a supplemental 



